#Maklane's "Better" Mods

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cobalt veldt
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Mods updated for Stalker 2 1.7.1
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/113
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/175
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/320

Maklane Better Zone Overhaul - Rebirth 2.0 Update:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/241

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Nexus Mods :: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Maklane's Better Gunfights REBIRTH - NO Aimbot NPCs

Tired of NPC aimbot from hundreds of metres away? Bullets are chasing you through the trees and you can't enjoy the gunfights? Would you like ranged fights to last longer? Then this mod is for you!

Nexus Mods :: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Maklane's Better Mutants - Fear and Fair REBIRTH

Tired of burning gunpowder to kill a piece of meat? Getting bored standing on a box? Pigs still won't fly? Then this mod is for you!

Nexus Mods :: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Maklane's Better Weapons Feeling and Ballistics REBIRTH

Tired of the feeling that when you shoot, the bullets seem to be scattered in a forced manner? Do you want to shoot from the hip but the bullets are going to Mun? Do you like shotguns? Then this mod i

Nexus Mods :: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Maklane's Better Zone - Total Overhaul

Tired of venturing into The Zone feeling that everything is unfair? Sick of enemies shooting at you with Aimbot from afar? Do the mechanics feel too arcadey? Then this mod is for you!

boreal oyster
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The king is back!

cobalt veldt
plucky mica
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jk jk, glad to have u back chief

cobalt veldt
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Let's see if I can get myself organised and get an SSD for the Zone Kit. That's the easy part; the hard part will be putting it to use

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Maklane's "Better" Mods

boreal oyster
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It's only like 10 gigs for just CFG mods

cobalt veldt
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How?

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I was also interested in making mods for some sounds, music, and ambience, but 10 GB to make my current mods in Zone Kit? Where do I sign up?

boreal oyster
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When you select to install the SDK you can chose a strip down version which is just the CFGs and some cmd executables

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@bright elbow knows the link

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I'm on mobile right now so I can't find it so easily

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By link I mean the link to the guide on how to use it

bright elbow
cobalt veldt
boreal oyster
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Maklane I didn't know you spoke Spanish

cobalt veldt
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Installing. Thank you guys ❤️

cobalt veldt
boreal oyster
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Ah nice, I'm from Venezuela, but I live in Germany

cobalt veldt
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I've been in Aachen (Aquisgran)

bright elbow
cobalt veldt
bright elbow
cobalt veldt
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What do I do with this?

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I am at this step

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bright elbow
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Yeah so you'd grab the cfgs you want from the Stalker2 gamedata etc directory and copy them in the mod folder like you normally would.

cobalt veldt
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with the whole folder path, right?

bright elbow
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I think it sets a content directory and then you just add the missing folders from there

cobalt veldt
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any guides in how to upload to Steam?

bright elbow
cobalt veldt
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For some reason the mod is failing to install after downloading through Steam

bright elbow
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You can download it manually

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See if it uploaded funny

cobalt veldt
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This is the path where the .pak file is

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That was created by CreateMod.bat

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Sorry, that was created by PakCfgMod.bat

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It seems that this is OK, as it only uploaded the mod files as intended, so looks like some issue with the pak file or the path

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bright elbow
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For comparison: depot_1643320_6190613921685393639.zip\Stalker2\Mods\Alife-Found-A-Way\Content\Paks\Windows

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Looks like it ended up with some extras

cobalt veldt
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ok, let me try with the same path as yours

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also, you keep this?

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bright elbow
cobalt veldt
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when someone downloads your mod, they only download the .pak file, right?

bright elbow
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Pretty sure it's the depot folder with the pak in it

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I haven't tried it in awhile, can't remember haha

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Pretty sure they end up here: D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\1643320

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I can subscribe quick

cobalt veldt
bright elbow
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D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\1643320\3508134757\Stalker2\Mods\Alife-Found-A-Way\Content\Paks\Windows

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That's the subscription mod path

bright elbow
cobalt veldt
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yep, but same problem. When I launch the game, it says that it failed to install

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ok, what path are you using before creating the mod?

bright elbow
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D:\STALKER2MODSDKClosedBetaM\Stalker2\Mods\Alife-Found-A-Way\Content\GameLite\GameData

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well I'm in closed beta but would be the same with release haha

proven stag
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the man is back raaaa

cobalt veldt
bright elbow
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That's how it works with the full sdk

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Documentation:

An empty mod plugin would be created at the path Stalker2\Mods<ModName>

cobalt veldt
bright elbow
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I don't think you need the extra stalker 2 in there

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Just start at content

cobalt veldt
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yes, it created the folder with the .uplugin and the resources folder with an icon image

bright elbow
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uh huh

cobalt veldt
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ok, starting at content

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and the resources for what? Just asking

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what you've inside that?

bright elbow
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placeholder icon

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nothing important doesn't even get used as far as I know.

cobalt veldt
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ok

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same issue

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do you know if there is any way to open a support ticket or speak to someone related to these tools?

lime nimbus
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Problem with publishing a mod in the Steam workshop? Did I understand correctly?

cobalt veldt
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in other words, the mod uploads correctly to the Workshop and everything seems to be fine when downloading it, but it does not work

lime nimbus
cobalt veldt
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is just a sad and loneyly .cfg file feels_bad_stalk

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using the same .cfg file with the old -mods folder and works just fine

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.cfg file -> unrealpak -> -mods/mod.pak

lime nimbus
bright elbow
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Probably looking for those extra files becaus it needs to check for assets. That would make sense

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The mini sdk should create them when you pak with it

lime nimbus
cobalt veldt
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Then the Mini SDk is useless, right?

lime nimbus
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Mini SDK is suitable for publishing mods on Nexus

cobalt veldt
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I am grateful to you for clarifying this and preventing me from wasting any more time

proven stag
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unfortunately.

cobalt veldt
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Yeah, wait, let me reload the gun once again...

proven stag
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mod.io mods can be manually created on the website, and then you manually add in a .zip file containing your mods.

cobalt veldt
proven stag
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it's folder structure needs to be the exact same as other Windows/Xbox mods compiled using the Unreal editor though.

cobalt veldt
proven stag
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real useful tool from Ace, saved my ass many times already

cold steppe
plucky mica
cold steppe
cobalt veldt
plucky mica
proven stag
cold steppe
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There are bat files, use them to get pak files; then use steamcmd to publish them into workshop

cobalt veldt
cold steppe
cobalt veldt
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Do you mean, this?

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cold steppe
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These are the bat files yea

bright elbow
reef mirageBOT
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maklane has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

bright elbow
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lol wolf....

cobalt veldt
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the ... is this!

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bright elbow
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Instructions?

cobalt veldt
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Yeah, to upload to workshop at least

bright elbow
cobalt veldt
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Not as much audience

lime nimbus
bright elbow
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Pretty sure utoc and ucas should be created by the mini sdk pak command

cold steppe
bright elbow
cold steppe
cobalt veldt
lime nimbus
cold steppe
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It paks all three files on my machine

cobalt veldt
cold steppe
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That instruction is incomplete tho

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They are hiding the real command sdk uses internally

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i can send you the full command tomorrow

cobalt veldt
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sure, share it here if you can ❤️

proven stag
boreal oyster
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This will not create utos and ucas files. This only creates pak files

cobalt veldt
bright elbow
boreal oyster
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But you traditionally don't need the ucas and utoc files for cfg, why make them ?

bright elbow
boreal oyster
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Oh lol

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This is a steam workshop discussion?

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That's quite strange, but I think it might be related more to the structure inside the zip. You might want to see how the filew are stored in the Workshop content folders in the steamapps

bright elbow
cobalt veldt
cobalt veldt
boreal oyster
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Did you compare against a mod that works ?

cobalt veldt
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At this momment I'm even happy if that's the case

boreal oyster
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Like any other mod from workshop that was supposed to be the same way

cobalt veldt
cobalt veldt
boreal oyster
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And is stored the same way

cobalt veldt
boreal oyster
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I mean the final result in workshop files ?

bright elbow
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only difference at this point is the utoc and ucas files missing

boreal oyster
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Strange

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Move those paks into your ~mods folder

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Did you try to see if it works like this then?

cobalt veldt
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I'll be back later

cobalt veldt
boreal oyster
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Yeh

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Like move your mod from the workshop folder to the legacy folder

cold steppe
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here is the cmd i promised

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since you are likely on windows, you don't need some of these:

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replace mod name and sdk path with yours

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@proven stag ^

cobalt veldt
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I don't have this

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cobalt veldt
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That .exe is not here either

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cold steppe
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how come

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someone can send it to ya

cobalt veldt
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@bright elbow @proven stag @plucky mica

proven stag
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well lemme send it in DM regardless, bigass file at ~350 MB

cobalt veldt
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Great feels_bad_stalk

cobalt veldt
proven stag
cobalt veldt
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np

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Come on OneDrive engineer, go faster

cobalt veldt
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What I'm doing wrong here?

D:\>STALKER2ZoneKit>\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\RunUAT.bat" "-Project=D:\STALKER2ZoneKit\Stalker2\Stalker2.uproject" "-PluginPath=D:\STALKER2ZoneKit\Stalker2\Mods\Maklane-Better-Gunfights-Rebirth\Maklane-Better-Gunfights-Rebirth.uplugin" -TargetPlatform=Win64 "-UnrealExe=D:\STALKER2ZoneKit\Stalker2\Binaries\Win64\Stalker2ModEditor-Win64-Shipping-Cmd.exe

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Because it doesn't find the path

proven stag
cobalt veldt
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The system can't find the specified path/route

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Translated from spanish

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System cannot find the path specified

proven stag
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oh are you using PowerShell too? try adding .\ to the start of your command

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I have to do this everytime for the script to actually run

cobalt veldt
proven stag
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oh, cmd.

cobalt veldt
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yep

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but I can try in PS

proven stag
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yeah might be worth a try, it's all I have ever used for mini SDK and kinda works fine

cobalt veldt
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nope, something must be wrong in the command

cobalt veldt
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The issue seems to be in the system but no idea

cold steppe
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why do you type cd ..?

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Show me explorer with tree view enabled of the sdk folder where this exe should be

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Also try chatgpt to craft you a command for cmd / ps

cobalt veldt
cobalt veldt
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It says "System cannot find the path specified"

proven stag
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sorry just need the link

cobalt veldt
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sorry, here

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bright elbow
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Worth a shot anyway

cobalt veldt
bright elbow
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Was just meant as a test for uploading it to Steam with those files included in the archive

cobalt veldt
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just to make sure, the filelist.xml is ok?

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bright elbow
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I'll have to check when I'm home after work

cobalt veldt
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Ey @bright elbow Prepare your feet

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It works

bright elbow
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Glad that solved the problem

cobalt veldt
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After all this, I need a holiday. See you again in six months smile_strelok

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jk

proven stag
cobalt veldt
proven stag
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maybe you might want to add a section listing incompatible mod types. BB for example

boreal oyster
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I'm currently running Maklanes better zone with BB and my mods running on top

cobalt veldt
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Can you share the link to your workshop article?

proven stag
proven stag
boreal oyster
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All seems to be working correctly and overriding properly

proven stag
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yeah it should override properly, I mean combat would be busted balancing wise tho

proven stag
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might have to check the latest version of Better Gunfights

cobalt veldt
proven stag
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I see

cobalt veldt
proven stag
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thank you! hopefully people will actually read this, considering how the description page of yours is short enough.

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I've always had this issue of people not reading my description and then complain of obvious issues...

cobalt veldt
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Not fancy, but practical

cobalt veldt
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I remember when we used to get together on Shay's post to share user complaints. Good times

proven stag
cobalt veldt
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I should have blocked it

cobalt veldt
boreal oyster
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everything is overwritten by a lot of other mods lol

cobalt veldt
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I removed some changes from the previous version that affected the game's economy because everything has changed so much and I would need to start a new game to really appreciate what GSC has done this past year

boreal oyster
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like BB and my own mods

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and loot?

cobalt veldt
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I still need to update the loot changes, that's a standalone file

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Back in the day I decided to make the loot changes as a separated file

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the Better Time to heal IS already in the Overhaul

boreal oyster
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nah im using the 2.0 rebirth file

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i should probably take a look at your files and see whats there

cobalt veldt
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You may not like what's down there

boreal oyster
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I had made this mod based on your old files

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its pretty much its own thing now, using bpatch

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but it was based on your item and loot changes

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Loot Overhaul
THE LOOT MODULE HAS BEEN REMOVED AS I HAVE DECIDED ITS TOO MUCH WORK

cobalt veldt
boreal oyster
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yeah lmaoo

reef mirageBOT
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felicheat has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

boreal oyster
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I didnt want to update it anymore after the latest changes lol

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i can send you the raw files one sec

boreal oyster
cobalt veldt
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Have you checked the scrip that I made?

boreal oyster
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nope

cobalt veldt
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sec

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to be honest, I could've improved it much more

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But yes, that script was boiling in my head while balancing the loot files XD

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I was like... I won't do it ever again by hand

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You can add more multipliers by just following the existing ones

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This is what I mean

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proven stag
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wow

cobalt veldt
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"proceeds to dissapear for months"

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proven stag
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you probably already know this but Kora is still using stock stats right now.

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really like what you're doing with the new weapon stats btw, they feel just right for a more vanilla-like game balancing that's not too hardcore.

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now I can tell Nexus comments that complain about BB being too hard, to just go try yours instead 😆

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win-win for both of us ngl

plucky mica
cobalt veldt
sullen shore
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Could you bring afew to mod.io?

cobalt veldt
flat cape
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Hey @cobalt veldt I want to ask, is your Better Weapons Feeling and Ballistics REBIRTH do anything to guns pricing? Including upgrade prices?

cobalt veldt
flat cape
cobalt veldt
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Merry Christmas Rad_Sign_Heart

proven stag
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Remember it's not Christmas until Alan Rickman falls from Nakatomi Plaza

cobalt veldt
cobalt veldt
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I have always been a fairly creative person, although professionally I have gone down the path of data analysis and business strategies. During the pandemic, I reconnected a little with that creative side and took up self-taught learning of Python, JavaScript and some video editing, achieving a level of editing quality that I call ‘potato quality’. In the last year, I have almost completely forgotten about that part of me which, although it does not pay the bills, pays for quality of life, pays for moments and, apparently, also creates some feelings among those who use, watch and enjoy something I have done. I cannot help but be grateful for everything, in general.

I would like to wish you a happy 2026. Don't forget to connect with your creative side, your inner child. If I had to sum it all up, I would say that everything in life is a matter of attitude.

I've created a simple video of some games in Tarkov, a game in which I occasionally allow myself to take the shotgun out for a ride. If you watch it, enjoy it, and if you don't, you'll fall into an anomaly smile_scar . Whatever you do, see you in The Zone, Stalker.